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Well I am fully aware that absolutely everything arises interdependently, but I don’t seem to suffer in any way when I believe that YOU may have something worthwhile to say, although you are like a mirage, unless YOU say that YOU have no intrinsic words or wisdom to offer, in which case I can safel...

Have you guys never walked up a building in GTA (the computer game) with a sniper in hand, prepared to shoot unsuspecting people on the streets for no perticular reason? http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g30/ak-73/sniper3.jpg I sure have. Perhaps in addition to the beautiful analyses you've mentione...

For the third time… I would like to know one essential thing… tell me, what exactly does the ‘mirage’ analogy actually point to? People believe subjects and objects appear one way - as intrinsicially existing - while the reality is that they are dependent arisings, which makes intrinsic existence i...

I wouldn't say schizophrenia, but perhaps something more like this? Ignorant Schmuck Disorder (ISD) is a mental disorder in which the sufferer is affected by suffering, and experiences the world as if he were a locally fixed center - or “person” - completely separate from it. The world is further di...

For me the masculine is the will and desire for freedom, as it manifests in humans. It is the ignorant human being striving for Truth. The feminine is the will to relate, to share, to take part, to dance, to flow, to radiate, to communicate. So God manifesting itself through apparent dualism is a fe...

What do you think?

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the fact remains that the ordinary guy and the enlightened guy still hold their identities as individuals, and interact with their environment as an individual, hence the “I” (ego, the sense of I AND that which is not I) remains, and that is the topic of this discussion. You need to understand that...

By using the awesome analogy, your question becomes: "If the enlightened being can see that the 'oasis' provides no water, does this therefore mean that he doesn't need water to survive?" So how this question doesn't make any sense? Of course he will need water to biologically survive, jus...

And my point is… what you say here too is a story… including you saying 'all is but stories', which IS A STRORY TOO… so do you get the point? I get it, and I grant it. So since you admit that you are but a storyteller, give me one good reason that I should take you or your stories seriously? And wh...

Well, what about the story “in the morning we wake up”? Who is this “we”? And what makes you think there is something awake to begin with, or was asleep from which it awoke? That's my point. As Bodhidharma said: " Words are illusions ". There is no one who wakes up - that's just a story. ...

dejavu wrote:The truth really is that seeing happens with anyone doing it.

Can you produce any evidence of this I? Where is it? How big? What shape? When exactly did it begin to exist?

for being conscious necessarily means a thing being conscious of something else... Yes, that is the story. But if you investigate into experience, what is happening? Take vision for example, in the morning we wake up, and a world appears in vision. This is undeniable. But then a story pops up: &quo...

the subject/object split always remains intact... But there is no such split. You are like a person telling himself there are cold water and cool shade in a desert mirage. Of course it appears to be that way to people who don't know the true nature of a mirage, but in actuality, there is no water o...

Enjoy dukkha, Prince. Because judging by the degree of attachement you display above, there's alot alot coming your way.

I dare not say you are wrong Is You say whatever you'd like! Isn't duality a fact within experience? There is no experienc:er, and no experience. Just whatever is happening. And that happening in ungraspable, ineffable, unfindable - shunya. Just action . This is the middle way, you see. Happening a...

The I (or The Eye) can be demonstrated through your own use of logic, and indeed the axiom which you are reasoning with above, which is along the lines of there must be an an object and a subject. In this way, it can be understood that you are the subject. This I, is it the same as the body and min...

There is an eastern flavour to quite a bit of his work, yet he never had exposure to Eastern metaphysics(as far as I know). Yeah, that's awesome. In my favourite philosophical work of all time - the Mulamadhyamakakarika by Nagarjuna, the commentator Jay L. Garfield draws quite alot of parallels bet...

Ataraxia, thanks for that Hume quote. It's funny with most Western philosopher's though. To them, the philosophical issues are merely conceptual, just something they think about, and then have dinner, or whatever. Never do they bring the reasoning into themselves in a transformative fashion, as is g...

This is non-duality experience... Nope. It is what is usually called a "causal" or "formless" absorption. This is because as long as there is a Witness, there is duality. This is very simple to understand; it is just illogical and nonsensical to assume a witness without a witnes...

I am awareness, not something to be aware of. The unseen observer, the witness self. Say that you roughly got 7 senses. Sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste, feeling and thought. (Thought here = discrimination, perception, volition, memory; all these function like they do because of conditioning.) D...

I do know that impermanence and change are part of nature, infact, it all does nothing more than change. Paradoxically the only thing that doesnt change; is that all will change. As Buddha said humans are not beings but becomings. We live on the pin point of the moment, we experience time in series...

Jupiviv. Knowing the ego or self to be a computer program, or a dependently arisen bubble - there is nothing wrong with it. It is empty, like everything else. So why the need to get rid of it? The attempt at getting rid of the ego is nothing else than the ego perpetuating itself. Just like a wave is...

All this talk about consciousness being somehow independent of the brain springs out of our primal fear of death. It's that simple. Li, the sooner you accept that impermanance, chaos and change are part of nature, the sooner will you be able to experience true immortality. When the great Zen master ...

If somethings moving, then yes it's definitely moving. Hi, have you read Chapter 2 of Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika? MMK of Nagarjuna, Section 2 An Analysis of "Going to" (Change or Movement) In 25 verses Mulamadhyamakakarika II.1. Nargarjuna: That which is already gone to (gatam – goe...

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How about... a visit to hell?!